The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-12
Tia Presidential Party Have = Pleasant
Journey FFGm MsdisOn.
Mr.. Cleveland Thanks st. Paul People For
Not spOiliDg HIS Wife in Youth.
The City Crowded With Visitors Anxious tt
Sos the Nations Executive.
The Formal WeleOme-Condueted to the
HOteI-The Presidents apartments
The Evening Reception,

ST. Paul, October 10.-The special train
containing the President, Mrs. Cleveland,
the Postmsster-General and his wife, and
the gentlemen composing the party which
left Washington with the President, reach
ed st. Paul exactly on time, at half-past
FIVE this evening, having left Madison,
Wis, at o'clock this morning, The run
from Madison was, perhaps. the most en-
joyable days journey the party has expert
enced since it's departure from Washing
ton. All had been thoroughly rested dur
ing the stay ct Madison, and were IN the
best of health and spirits. The weather
for The greater part OF the day was as hne
as if ordered on purpose, and the region
through which the travellers passed is
one OF the pleassRtest sections OF
the Northwest. The foliage at this season
is comparable to nothing so well as to
great Persian rug or a gaudy Pavajo
blsnket, so bright are the colors and so
vivid the contrasts. Nor were the wilder
sspects OF nature wanting in the panorama.
Huge pieces and queer necks of rock reared
their Jagged heads from the plains of
Western Wisconsin, their brow spread out
in gold and purple, their fronts grey and
frowning above above the tree tops. Along
the Mississippi bold bluffs pushed the
stream to one side or the other, and now
pointed or castellated formation like
nothing in art and nothing else in nature
The people along the line, and at the
smaller stations were much less demon
straiive than those Of the regions passed
through earlier in the trip. They gathered
at many points IN little knots OF from
fifty to three or four hundred, on the plat
forms, swung their hats and haDdkerchlefs,
but with few exceptions made no attempts
at decoration, and seemed intent only up
on satisfying their desire to see the Presi-
dent, in which purpose none were disap-
pointed.
at La Crosse where the train tarried
twenty minutes there was little gem of
demonstration, which was highly praised by
its recipients. Though there were ten
thousand people at the station with twice
as many more lining the streets of the
town, and though their entire enthusiasm
was of the liVelIest kind, there was neither
crowding nor haste. Rich carpets covered
the platform for a hundred feet between
the train and the carriages and wide
avenue, into which none but the receiving
delegation penetrated, was left open for
the visitors. The bells of the town rang
merry peals snd the steam whistles of
mills and steamboats, screeched their
widest, but from the moment Mayor
Austin took the Presidents hand and wei
coined him, to that when he expressed the
wish tHSt ne might nave maze longer
stop, the utmost order prevailed.
At Portage, New Lisbon, Sparta and Lake
City where five minute stops were made,
bandshaking took place, of the now fa-
mlliar character, yet with a difference.
The lcok of excitement almost as intense
as that of men IN battle was missing. The
people jostled and crowded, but they
laughed as they did so. The interview
was with them not 60 evidently one Of bus
II - g Il,
numbers gathered had a chance to shake
the hand Of the President, but their cheers
as the train pulled awsy were none the
less hearty. Just north of Winona q
throDg of workmen were gathered, and one
on horseback rode uD to the
slow moving train to present to Mrs.
Cleveland with their compliments hand
some bouquet. He reached it out and
thought Ii safe in her hand, but unluekily
II Was not and fell to the ground. The
mounted man was embarrassed for a mo-
ment, but an athletic fellow from among
the workmen leaped ditch and picked
up the flowers, none the worse for their
fall, and amid the widest hurrahs of his
companions, delivered them. He will re-
member the lady's smile as long as he
lives. The special schedule time of the
train to-day was considerably faster than
any heretofore.
THE CROWD IN ST. PAUL.
Flying clouds and a frosty air ushered in
the day for which st. Paul has been pre-
pairing with esger expectation for a month
past, Towards the middle OF the afternoon
the sun came out and the weather mode
rated somewhat, but is still tonight de-
Scidedly brsciDg. The crowd is unparalleled
In the eity's history, and the oldest in
babitaDt recalls the Willard expedition,
the Garfield obsequies and the winter car
nlvals in vain to remember its like. With
all the regular trains packed, twenty long
specials and the contingent that
came yesterday a conservative estimate
places the number of strangers In the city
population of thrice that number, makes
pedestrianism attended with difficulties.
But it is a good natured and courteous
crowd, eager to see but patient to wait,
while the excellent police arrangements
prevented any delay OF the Presidents
tlDgent 81 hered at the Union Depot
long before $780, and q few minutes
before that hour the carriages containing
the reception committee drove up. Among
them were Colonel herr, Aldermen Cul-
len, Dowlan, Sanborn, Hsmm and Bryant,
CONGRESSMAN Rice and P. H. Kelly. Pass
ing through the throng of people the re-
ception committee walked forward to the
depot platform where passage was pre-
served ND the center. Sliding down the
track came the Presidential train, the en-
giDe front Raily decorated with flags and
hung with coloIed sdrapery in graceful
feStoons.
The reception committee boarded the
end of the car, and the open door revealed
the President and Mrs. Cleveland standing
in the parlor beneath the electric light.
The small apartment was hung around
With festoons of flowers and green vreaths
z. II. Kelly was the FIRST 70 greet the vfsi-
tors, and be In turn introduced the rest of
the committee, each beIug received with
shake of the hand and q pleasant smile
from the Presidential pair. The
brief ceremony over, Congressman
Rice assisted Mrs. Cleveland to
alight, and Col. Kerr stepped to the
platform with the President. Then es-
eorted on one side By Col. Kerr and on the
other by Judge Flandreau the President
proceeded down the platform, Mrs. Clsye-